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Repeated Years or Repeated Courses

A widely held, but incorrect, belief is that you can repeat a year of study if you haven’t done very well, or repeat an individual course, or replace a course in which you have done badly with another one. This is not the case. The University’s examination and assessment regulations contain the following statement:

“No student should be given an unfair advantage over fellow students through being allowed to repeat individual course units or to repeat a whole year of study. Exceptional permission to do so may be granted by the Pro-Vice Chancellor, by the Part I and Part II Review Committees or by the Standing Academic Committee in cases where a student’s academic performance has been adversely affected by personal, health or financial problems and where such cases are properly documented.

No student should normally be allowed to replace units of assessment in which he or she has failed or performed poorly by taking a different unit of assessment in the hope of achieving better marks. Exceptional permission to do so may be granted by the Chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, by the Part I and Part II Review Committees or by the Standing Academic Committee in cases where a student’s academic performance has been adversely affected by personal, health or financial problems and where such cases are properly documented.”

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